Gruenes Gewoelbe Museum Re-Opens

DRESDEN - SEPTEMBER 01: German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles while looking at jewelry in an exhibit at the Gruenes Gewoelbe (Green Vault) Museum, while museum director Dirk Syndram looks on, on the day of the museum's reopening September 1, 2006 in Dresden, Germany. The museum, destroyed in Allied bombing during World War II, has finally reopened after restoration work that took four years and cost 45 milllion Euros. It contains figurines, porcelain and other treasures collected by the 18th-century Prince-Elector of Saxony, August II. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)